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Gennady A Koganov1, Reuben Shuker, Evgueni P Gordov
1Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 563, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. quant@bgumail.bgu.ac.il
Applied Optics
|June 3, 2005
Abstract:
We describe an autodyne lidar with multiple external mirrors by using an analytical approach presented previously [Appl. Opt. 41, 7087 (2002)]. The use of multiple target mirrors allows one to detect and locate the concentration of species between any pair of neighboring mirrors.
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